How To Use Universal Naming Conventions with Visual FoxPro

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When Visual FoxPro must resolve a path (for example with "Use C:\Test.dbf"), it passes the path to the operating system by using the appropriate API. The same procedure is used when referencing a UNC (Universal Naming Convention) path. A UNC path takes the following form: where servername is the name of your server and where foldername is the name of the folder.For example, the following UNC path points to the Test folder on the Mserver server : Note A UNC path is not case-sensitive in Visual FoxPro. Any command that can take a fully qualified path in Visual FoxPro can support a UNC path. There is no delay internal to Visual FoxPro that is caused by the use of a UNC path to reference files. There is no proven speed or reliability increase gained by mapping a network drive to the server versus using a UNC reference.

In general, with the exception of the SET DEFAULT and CD commands, any command that can take a fully qualified path in Visual FoxPro can support UNC.

There is no delay internal to Visual FoxPro caused by the use of UNC to reference files. There is no proven speed or reliability increase given by connecting a network drive to the server and using conventional reference methods.